Two people were killed in a shooting in Hamburg on Saturday night, local police said on Sunday, the second such incident this month.
According to a police spokesman, the operation has been completed and the investigation into the case is ongoing, but without providing any further information on who shot the gun.
German newspaper Bild said police were called just before midnight to deal with a shooting in the Langenhorn district and 28 vehicles were dispatched to the scene after finding the already lifeless bodies (they died instantly) in a small lane between two had found buildings
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The Hamburg public prosecutor announced this morning that one of the two dead was the 50yearold gunman who is said to have fired several shots at the 42yearold victim before he committed suicide.
According to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, some German media reported that the men had ties to the German rock scene, which has grown rapidly and includes some gangs with criminal connections and major intergroup rivalries. The police did not confirm the call.
This is the second string of deaths in the northern German port city this month after a 35yearold man killed four men and two women, one pregnant, at a Jehovah’s Witnesses temple on March 9. Episode that sparked debate in Germany about increasing restrictions on carrying a gun.